Ruined Quotes - Page 15

• I came away from that set [ Hail, Caesar !] super inspired, and like I said, it ruined all future endeavors. I'll never have as good an experience as that.

  David Krumholtz

  Inspired, Hail, Said

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Real, Believe, Past

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• Reality TV has ruined people's ability to watch documentary.

  David Farrier

  Reality, People, Watches

  "He made a movie about competitive tickling. But then things got truly weird". Interview with Michael O'Sullivan, www.washingtonpost.com. July 2, 2016.

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• Those who live simply are often pure, while those who live luxuriously may be slavish and servile. It seems that the will is clarified by plainness, while conduct is ruined by indulgence.

  Zicheng Hong

  Taoism, May, Live Simply

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• The alcoholism got me and I ruined my first marriage with drinking and the lying and the deceit and infidelity, and all of that. The whole bloody thing.

  Malachy McCourt

  Lying, Drinking, Infidelity

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.

  Caitlin Moran

  Shoes, Majority, Magazines

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• If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.

  Margaret Atwood

  Morning, Women, Knowledge

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Mar 08, 2015

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• I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.

  Charles Dickens

  Morning, Light, Long Ago

  Great Expectations ch. 59 (1862 ed.)

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• Don't stop doing what you love. Don't let your future be ruined by a bunch of loony sand monkeys.

  Megan McCafferty

  Doing What You Love, Monkeys, Sand

  Megan McCafferty (2007). “Second Helpings: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.94, Broadway Books

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• All my life I have been reading romance novels. Those stupid books ruined me. I've always wanted that fire that every book I ever read talks about.

  Aurora Rose Reynolds

  Stupid, Book, Reading

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• He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered , with difficulty recognizing the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Flower, Men, Looks

  Leo Tolstoy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)”, p.2450, Delphi Classics

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• We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.

  Stephen Baxter

  Kids, Young, Galaxy

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• With a bit of luck, his life was ruined forever. Always thinking that just behind some narrow door in all of his favorite bars, men in red woolen shirts are getting incredible kicks from things he’ll never know.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Men, Thinking, Vegas

  "Fictional character: Raoul Duke". www.imdb.com.

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• Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven't touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane.

  Craig Ferguson

  Money, Drinking, Heart

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• If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined.

  Brigitte Bardot

  People, Meals, Restaurants

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• No theory ever benefited by the application of data, Amy. Data kills theories. A theory has no better time than when it's lying there naked, pure, unsullied by facts. Let's just keep it that way for a while." "So you don't really have a theory?" "Clueless." "You lying bag of fish heads." "I can fire you, you know. Even if Clay was the one that hired you, I'm not totally superfluous to this operation yet. I'm kind of in charge. I can fire you. Then how will you live?" "I'm not getting paid." "See, right there. Perfectly good concept ruined by the application of fact.

  Christopher Moore

  Lying, Clueless, Fire

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• I collected men with interesting names. I already knew a Socrates. He was tall and ugly and intellectual and the son of some big Greek movie producer in Hollywood, but also a Catholic, which ruined it for both of us.

  Sylvia Plath

  Son, Men, Names

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.28, Hamilton Books

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• And yet, I felt a surge of exhilaration just thinking about that night. Not just because I'd met the prince and fallen in love and started on my course toward happiness ever after, but because I'd made something happen. I'd done something everybody had told me I couldn't. I'd changed my life all by myself. Having a fairy godmother would have ruined everything.

  Margaret Haddix

  Night, Thinking, Godmother

  Margaret Peterson Haddix (2015). “Just Ella”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.

  Anita Brookner

  Drs, Literature, Forty

  "A Start in Life". Book by Anita Brookner, 1981.

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• Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, 'Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not?' But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

  Penn Jillette

  Art, Hero, Technology

  Interview with Joshua Quittner, www.wired.com. September 01, 1994.

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• Spirituality is a mixed-up, topsy-turvy, helter-skelter godliness that turns our lives into an upside-down toboggan ride of unexpected turns, surprise bumps and bone shattering crashes ... a life ruined by a Jesus who loves us right into his arms.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Jesus, Bumps, Arms

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• ...we took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of this library underneath a sign whose words can surely be applied to this whole ruined planet nowadays: THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Ignorance, Library, Foyers

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.19, Penguin

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• She was happy, and perfectly in line with the tradition of those women they used to call "ruined," "fallen," feckless, bitches in heat, ravished dolls, sweet sluts, instant princesses, hot numbers, great lays, succulent morsels, everybody's darlings . . .

  Jean Genet

  Sweet, Princess, Numbers

  Jean Genet (1994). “Querelle”, p.84, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.

  Alfred de Musset

  Christianity, Emperor, Saved

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• Want to play baseball?’” she asked. Shane’s eyes opened, and he stopped stroking her hair. “What?’” “First base,’” she said. “You’re already there.’” “I’m not running the bases.’” “Well, you could at least steal second.’” “Jeez, Claire. I used to distract myself with sports stats at times like these, but now you’ve gone and ruined it.

  Rachel Caine

  Sports, Baseball, Running

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